Knights Of The Sky (Amiga NTSC) - An Introductory Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
71Knights of the Sky is a WW1 flight sim, developed by Microprose, and published on the Amiga in December 1991. Here we get to fly the whole history of WW1 aircraft, and must negotiate the front lines on the way to various missions. This is a huge open world 3D game, let's check it out.
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Production Note:
Captured: 27th Feb 2023 (my Birthday), and 22nd May 2023
Narrated: 22nd May 2023
Rendered: 30th August 2023
Long before I knew what NTSC was, I somehow got hold of a copy of this game. I had a hard drive at that time, and noticed a strange icon on the workbench called 60hz. I clicked on it, and it made the screen go full depth on my TV, and the game even played a bit faster, so I figured it must be some kind of difference with the American video signal. Then I used the same tool before running Battle Chess, and it worked! So I started inserting the tool into the startup-sequences of all my DOS games, and even some DOS cracks, of Test Drive 2 and Lotus 1, and it worked. This opened up a new world for me, but I still didn't know what it was.
The aim of this video was to start the war and then just do the first few missions. But it takes ages to get the better aircraft, so I skipped through it a bit. It's been years since I last played it, so I couldn't really remember what to do. Finding the convoy was fun, and this was the best convoy run I ever did! Sadly it wasn't part of the mission.
Danscore:
WW1 flight sims on the Amiga usually comes down to Wings and Knights of the Sky. Wings is more of an arcade shooter, while Knights is more more of a sim, and there are no set standards except for a simple mission brief, and the aim of survival. The landscape is highly detailed, and makes F/A 18 Interceptor seem rather sparse. There are villages and churches and roads, clouds, cliffs on the coast, and every town and landmark on the map is represented. The player is definitely in for the long haul if they get deep into this, as there is a whole war to get though, day by day. Missions seem repetitive - and almost always consist of flying over the front lines, and shooting down some enemies. There are more mission types later on, and a good story line to follow, but arcade lovers probably wont get much of a lust to play it all the way through. In fact, the player is likely to die at some point, and has to start again anyway. Atmosphere is great, although not quite as good as Wings. Presentation is good, with a nice intro tune and flickery projector. I'd say for it's day, this epic is nothing short of a masterpiece. There are other WWI flying games out there, like Red Baron and Dawn Patrol, which attempt to do the same thing, but fall short. I'd give this 8/10.